Resilience is the ability of a system or community to withstand impacts from outside. An indicator is a good way of measuring that. Conventionally, the principal way of measuring a reducing carbon footprint is CO2 emissions. However, we firmly believe that cutting carbon while failing to build resilience is an insufficient response when you’re trying to address multiple shocks such as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis together.

Wind turbines are responsible for 0.01% of bird fatalities from man made causes. The more important causes are buildings (58%), power lines (14%), cats (11%), and pesticides (7%). All other causes were less than 1%.